kaduna state

Nasir El-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor, has criticised Nigerians over the fixation on the religious affiliations of presidential candidates and their running mates. El-Rufai made this call on Friday, June 10, in response to a question…

Some community members in Kaduna State have received relief materials from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegates from the concluded party presidential primary election. Tanko Rossi Sabo, who is one of the delegates of the PDP in…

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has on Thursday, May 19, expressed concerns about the emergence of insurgents and their enclaves in Birnin Gwari and Chukun Local Government Areas of the state. El-Rufai listed the…

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has expressed gratitude to religious, traditional, and community leaders, as well as security services, for their earnest and zealous pursuit of peace initiatives. El-Rufai stated this in a…

Senator representing Kaduna Central, Malam Uba Sani has called on the Federal Government to carry out special operations in Chikun local government area to destroy terrorist enclaves. Sani made this known in statement titled “The FG Must…

Kaduna State Government has sacked 233 teachers for presenting fake certificates upon the time of their recruitment. Tijjani Abdullahi, the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board disclosed this on Thursday during a press…

Three abducted seminarians at Christ the King Major Seminary, St. Albert Institute, Fayit, Fadan Kagoma in Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have been released. Bandits in large numbers had, on Monday night at about 8:00pm,…

Kaduna State Government has asked telecommunications firms to suspend their services in the state from September 30, towards checking the activities of bandits. The State’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel…

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has called on Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stop giving “preferential scores” to students in Northern Nigeria. In an interview on Channels Television on Monday September 6,…

Three more abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna state have on Tuesday, August 3 reportedly escaped from their captors. They were subsequently found by security operatives at Kankumi forest general area in Chikun local…

Two weeks after abduction from their school, two students of Bethel Baptist High School in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State have escaped from their kidnappers’ den. According to Daily Trust, a senior staff of the school, who…

Abductors of 121 students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna state, have reportedly demanded N60m ransom to free the captives. Bandits had stormed the school and abducted over 100 students two weeks ago (Monday, July 5), but shortly…

Former Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Barnabas Bala Bantex, who served in the position from 2015 to 2019 is dead. His death was confirmed on Sunday, July 11 by the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. Bantex served as deputy…

Bandits have in the early hours of Monday attacked Bethel Baptist School, a private college located at Maraban Rido area in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting an unspecified number of students. The kidnappers were…

Residents along Poly Road in Tudun Wada in Kaduna state were on Friday thrown into confusion when a 15-year-old housemaid simply identified as Hauwa allegedly ran away with her employer’s 10-month-old son. According Daily Trust, the…